Improvement in apparatus for teaching geography



SCHEDLEB. Apparatus for Teaching Geography.

No. 143,934.V

Patented ocr. 21,1873.

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JOSEPH SCHEDLER, OE JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, NEWT JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR TEACHING GEOGRAPHY'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,934, dated October 21,1873; application filed August 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SCHEDLER, of Jersey City Heights, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and Improved Combined Planisphere Maps and Hemisphere Globes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming p art of this specication, in which drawing- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in combining together upon the same chart a planispherical map or maps of the earth and hemispherical globes thereof. n

My invention is especially designed for the use of teachers and scholars; but is also well adapted for use in private houses and places of business.

One of the advantages of my invention consists in presenting to the observer, by means of the globes, the spherical character of the earths surface, so that he is enabled, from the same chart, to correct any false ideas of corresponding hemispheres, so that the globes` of either hemisphere shally be below the map of that hemisphere. A which is not occupied by the maps and globes can be used to show other information or statistics.

My invention is applicable to other planetary bodies as well as to the earth.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A card or plate for teaching geography, provided withV the planispheric maps B C, and

hemispheric maps B' C', arranged substantially as described.

JOS. SCHEDLER.

Witnesses W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

That portion "of the chart 

